SCHOOL IN GREAT BRITAIN (Part Two)

There are several types of schools in Great Britain. They are primary and secondary schools. English children begin to go to a secondary school when they are eleven. Some secondary schools are only for boys, some are only for girls and some for boys and girls. Grammar school, one of the types of secondary school, prepares pupils for the university. Pupils stay at this type of school from eleven till eighteen.

English schools are open five days a week. On Saturdays and Sundays there are no lessons. The school year has three terms. After a term pupils have holidays. So they have winter holidays which begin in December, spring holidays are in April, and summer holidays are in August and the first half of September. So they are six weeks long.

The pupils of all schools have uniforms. Each school may have a different uniform. They wear dark grey, dark green or dark blue uniforms. The pupils of many schools have striped ties, only the colours are different for each school. Very often pupils have their school badges on the left breast pockets and berets.